VornadoATOM 1 Oscillating Tower Fan, Small Air Circulator with 4 Speeds, Touch Controls,Black, 10"

I have only had it for a few days but love it. It's quiet and circulates air well.

I love Atom 1. I love that I can control the flow of the air and it goes exactly where you need it to go. The noise level isn’t bad at all and it kept me cool all summer. I hardly use the AC in my room because of the fan. During the heat waves I put on my AC for 15 mins with the fan on and after I turned it off the fan did an awesome job keeping the room cool.

I bought this to have on my desk while I work from home just to have some air circulation.Controls - The controls are touch based and at the top of the unit. I find that setting where you want it to oscillate is kind of finicky… you have to swipe around the edge, highlighting blue lights to set your oscillation range. If you swipe too slow or too quick it gets confused and thinks you want to just point the fan to one of the points.Noise - The fan noise itself at the lowest setting is almost inaudible and pushes a decent amount of air. At any of the other fan speeds it sounds like a small engine on your desk. When using oscillation mode, there is a low whirring sound. After using mine for a few days there’s now a distinct “clicking” sound that occurs when the fan stops to change directions. It wasn’t there the first day and I was impressed with how quiet the oscillation was initially.Value - I think it’s worth the price, just wish the noise issues weren’t a thing.

It’s a fan. It blows. But interface is the absolute worst.But give me just basic buttons! The touch interface is THE WORST. When you want to change a setting, it is pain to get it to register a touch you want. But if you accidentally touch the wrong spot it messes everything up.I do not want to consult the manual when I want to change the direction or speed. The interface is basically adding complexity for the sake of perceived modernness.It’s a fan. Give me 3 manual buttons for speed, and 1 more button for oscillation.This fan suffers from trying to be fancy for fancy sake, but it make the experience or operating it awful

I'm sure this fan is made well (consider the 5-year warranty), but I think it's overpriced and its rotation controls are unnecessarily "fiddly."Those controls are cute and space-age-y but that's unnecessary. A simple touch control for rotation on the top surface (similar to the + and - controls for fan speed) would have been sufficient, with lighted labels showing the rotation angle selected. The spin-your-finger-around-the-edge routine turns out to be less user-friendly than I'd thought it would be.I'm finding that touching the top of the unit in places that should not control its rotation sometimes switches rotation on. Sometimes, picking the unit up by the sides (and not touching the top at all) has caused it to start rotating again. I don't know if that's a defect or just a design feature I wasn't aware of. In any case those aren't deal-breakers.Noise levels: There are 4 speeds. Setting 1 puts out so little air that you hardly notice it. I won't use setting 1 in any case—at that setting, the motor has a seriously annoying 'buzz'—thumbs down for that. It's acceptably quiet at setting 2, which seems like a good one if the fan's not far from you on a desk. At speed settings 3 and 4 it's not quiet. At setting 4, the fan blasts out an impressive amount of air—thumbs up for that. If I need that much cooling I can probably live with the noise as long as the fan isn't right next to me.I don't know why they made the power cord in two sections. I don't ever have to detach them from each other again...but it's just an odd design.Their smaller Helix 2 tower fan (which I also have) doesn't pump out as much air but is good for use nearby you on a desktop. It strikes me as a better buy than the model I'm reviewing here.So, a mixed bag. Build-quality-wise it probably rates a 5 but the other drawbacks knock it down a couple of pegs.

Complicated switch

I like that this fan has a small footprint so it doesn't take up much space on the table. It is powerful enough for it's size and isn't too loud.

I got one midsummer. Absolutely love it. Somehow mine stopped working but customer service is so awesome. I just reported it to them and that’s all it took.The replacement got here faster than I had expected.I gotta tell ya. When it’s not that warm but you just need a little air circulation near you, put it in whisper mode(lowest setting) and you’ll be fine and you won’t hear it running.I really love this fan.We are now a Vornado household and have 4 different ones. Will be getting two industrial type before next summer.